Citizenship bill: AASU-led conglomerate announces protests

The conglomerate led by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and comprising 30 organizations has announced a string of protests and demonstrations against the central government’s decision to go ahead with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in Silchar that his government hopes to get the bill passed in Parliament very soon, the AASU-led conglomerate announced that it will hit the streets in protest and appealed to the people of Assam to rise up in protest against the legislation.

While the AASU-led groups and organizations will observe Jan 7 (Monday), the day the bill is likely to be tabled in Parliament, as ‘Black Day’, it has announced an 11-hour dawn-to-dusk Assam Bandh on Tuesday (Jan 8, from 5 am to 4 pm).